AlexBrightsmith

How wrong can you be?
Reporter / Martha’s Vineyard / Crime
294 words
@BrightsmithGamp

It’s not that I didn’t think there was any crime in the Vineyard at all – I was a young idiot, but I wasn’t so much of a […]

Thank you.

Thank you. I hope I got the bridge right, for a local – I’ve only seen pictures.

So impressed with the way the backstory is woven in, and I love the idea of the river that has always been London’s life becoming its death.

Loving the disclaimers!

Interlude
Dancer / Millennium / Tragedy
@brightsmithgamp 297 words

Even London sleeps, eventually.

Kate moved through silent streets, searching, the euphoria of 2 am fading into a raw buzz of adrenaline, […]

Thank you 🙂 It seemed a shame not to have *somebody* smiling

Chances
Alex Brightsmith
300 words

She was surrounded.
That was bad. As an unlicensed trader Cherren’s liberty depended on always – always – having somewhere to run. Usually she had a partner to help her i […]

For a Maiden Fair

The dragon swooped across a flat grey sky. In the beginning they had watched eagerly, some in fear and some in wonder, but neither fear nor wonder lasts, not for a shadow on the subway wall. […]

Isn’t it funny how strong an image you can take sometimes when it wasn’t the one intended? I saw them groping blindly for one another’s hands for a shred of human comfort, unable to tear their horrified eyes from […]

A lovely thought that even dragons’ wishes go awry

Such a world of unspoken horror in that one last eloquent gesture

Indefinite leave
(Biologist in the rain – drama, 109 words)
@BrightsmithGamp

Coming from the cool dry of the facility, she found it beautiful, at first. A breeze on her face, the soft prickle of rain on her […]